involved!—well, the most extraordinary people are drawn to do this. Documentary filmmakers are the most fascinating people to be around, they just are, mostly because the best ones tend not to be filmmakers. They’re coming at cinema from another vantage point; they’ve been out in the world and lived a bit, travelled, learned languages. So yes, I have hope that the work of making non-fiction cinema is just going to get better and better and better if my reading of the pulse and vigour of this particular community here in Mumbai is anything to go by. The aesthetic imperatives are becoming something important to acknowledge and that’s a big leap, I think, and an important one.
R J: Where we can take hope, on a certain level, is that there are many films that do exist where the craft is so strong, it cannot be denied. I think we just have to keep speaking